How I spent my holidays.

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

  Well, how I wasted a couple of hours this evening, anyway:

/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ tail build13.log
cccp.c:5006: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function
'exit'
cccp.c: In function 'pfatal_with_name':
cccp.c:5028: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function
'exit'
cccp.c: In function 'xmalloc':
cccp.c:5043: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'malloc'
cccp.c: In function 'xrealloc':
cccp.c:5055: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'realloc'
cc -g  -o cccp cccp.o cexp.o version.o obstack.o
rm -f cpp
ln cccp cpp
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ make
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ cat hw.c

extern int _printf (const char *fmt, ...);

int _main (int argc, const char **argv)
{
  _printf ("Hello, Wrodl!\n");
  return 127;
}

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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ as - -o ./crtn.o < /dev/null
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ ln -s
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../crt0.o crt1.o
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ PATH=.:${PATH} ./gcc.exe -v hw.c -o hw
-lkernel32 -lc -lkernel32
gcc version 1.27
 cpp -v -undef -D__GNU__ -D__GNUC__ -Dunix -Di386 hw.c /tmp/ccfnQgY0.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.27
 cc1 /tmp/ccfnQgY0.cpp -quiet -dumpbase hw.c -version -o /tmp/ccfnQgY0.s
GNU C version 1.27 (80386, ATT syntax) compiled by GNU C version 4.3.2
20080827 (alpha-testing) 1.
 as /tmp/ccfnQgY0.s -o hw.o
 ld -o hw ./crt1.o hw.o -lkernel32 -lc -lkernel32 ./gnulib -lc ./crtn.o
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ ./hw
Hello, Wrodl!
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ echo $?
127
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ PATH=.:${PATH} ./gcc.exe -v -S  hw.c -o hw.s
gcc version 1.27
 cpp -v -undef -D__GNU__ -D__GNUC__ -Dunix -Di386 hw.c /tmp/ccZCuLnv.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.27
 cc1 /tmp/ccZCuLnv.cpp -quiet -dumpbase hw.c -version -o hw.s
GNU C version 1.27 (80386, ATT syntax) compiled by GNU C version 4.3.2
20080827 (alpha-testing) 1.
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $ cat hw.s
        .file   "hw.c"
.text
.LC0:
        .byte 0x48,0x65,0x6c,0x6c,0x6f,0x2c,0x20,0x57,0x72,0x6f
        .byte 0x64,0x6c,0x21,0xa,0x0
        .align 4
.globl _main
_main:
        pushl %ebp
        movl %esp,%ebp
        pushl $.LC0
        call _printf
        movl $127,%eax
        jmp .L1
.L1:
        leave
        ret
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/cygdrive/f/old-gcc/gcc-1.27 $


  Well whaddaya know, it still works!

    cheers,
      DaveK